Nursing Career Development, 1-2-3 | The Nurse Keith Show, EPS 123

In honor of this episode being number 123, I decided to do a show on a 1-2-3 approach to nursing career development. Becoming a nurse isn’t as easy as 1-2-3, but there are some basic building blocks that help in terms of maintaining and nurturing our passion and professional drive.

There are more than three basic building blocks to a successful nursing career, and we’re going to explore and enumerate the ones that feel absolutely essential to me at this moment in time. So I misled you from the start — there are going to be five, not three. My bad!

2. Building your brand: Personal and professional branding is essential for your nursing career. Your brand has to do with what others experience when interacting with you both online and in person. Your brand is made up of who you are, how you communicate, how you conduct yourself in your personal and professional lives, your online communications, your skills, your education and certifications, and everything else related to who you are in the world. Build a positive brand throughout your life and career.

3. Continuous learning and professional development: Intellectual curiosity, skill-building, leadership, communication, and other types of learning are central to moving your career forward. It doesn’t have to be limited to professional education and learning; you can move your career and life forward by fulfilling personal learning goals as well.

4. Personal development: Working on yourself and developing different aspects of yourself is also important to your overall well-being and success. This includes personal development in the spiritual, emotional, political, social, physical, and mental realms. Growing as a person will have a positive impact on your career, your happiness, and the choices you make throughout your life.

5. Finding joy and happiness:Episode 120 was all about cultivating leisure, pleasure, joy, and fun in your life. This is essential to your happiness at home and at work!

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Keith is co-host of RNFMRadio.com, a wildly popular nursing podcast; he also hosts The Nurse Keith Show, his own podcast focused on career advice and inspiration for nurses. Keith was previously the resident nursing career expert at Nurse.com.

He has also contributed chapters to a number of books related to the nursing profession, and has written for Nurse.org, Nurse.com, MultiViews News Service, LPNtoBSNOnline, StaffGarden, Working Nurse Magazine, and other online platforms.